![]() ![]() These are very important documents for people in the field of affordable housing, as they show an alternative path to urban development. ![]() Doshi’s Vastu Shilpa Foundation has published studies that lead to the project along with Aranya’s master plans. Also involved in the study that lead to Doshi’s plan was the very interesting Minimal Cost Housing Group at McGill University. This “site and services” project was supported by the World Bank, which in those days believed that incremental development and users’ involvement was key to providing shelter to the economically weaker sections of society. The Indore Development Authority had commissioned a low-cost housing initiative for economically weaker sections of the city. Last week, we followed the trail of incremental development as hard-wired into BV Doshi’s little publicized Aranya project, which was started in the early 1980s in the city of Indore (Madhya Pradesh, India).
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